Infant&#39;s nursing bottle and nipple holder



12, 1936. N. s. MURPHY INFANT S NURSING BOTTLE AND NIPPLE HOLDER FiledOct. 20, 1934 Patented May 12, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE INFANTSNURSING BOTTLE AND NIPPLE HOLDER Nellie Scroble Murphy, Orlando, Fla.

Application October 20, 1934, Serial No. 749,194

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a useful. device for holding an infants nursingbottle and nipple in a manner especially adapted for bottle babies.

nursing attached to a pillow, the side of a crib,

mattress, to hold the bottle in a slanting bed or position and in amanner to accommodate the bottle to the movements of the infant, anddesi sued to tle can be readily disengaged for washing filling, withoutloss of time or difficulty.

and re- No claim is made with reference to the bottle itself or thenipple, but only to the holder herein described, the bottle and nipplebeing shown to illustrate the operation of the holder.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which like numbers describe like parts.

The invention consists, therefore, in the construction and combinationof parts whereby the above and other advantages are attained, all ofwhich will be pointed out in the following description and claim.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is an elevational side drawing is one-half actual size.

Figure 2 is a cross section on the line Fig. 1.

view and the AAof l in the drawing is a rubber nursing nipple. 2 is aspring steel clip to hold the nursing bottle in position and to hold thenipple on the bottle.

3 is a glass nursing bottle. 4 is a cap pressed out of sheet metal. 5 isa steel bar on which a socket H is welded, as are parts 4 and 2.

is a bolt with a butterfly nut. The socket l l fits over post II] whichis a steel rod with a steel ball on the top end. Socket ll fits over thesteel ball, forming a ball and socket joint. By loosening the bolt l2,the bottle and holder may be turned and set at any angle. 6 is a metalbar with a steel collar welded on one end. This collar has a hole in itand carries a thumb-screw I3. This member 6 'can slide on post isclamped tightly by thumb-screw l3.

l0 and 1 are slight'knobs on clamp-bars '6 and 8. Metal bar 8 and postID are together, while 9 is an eye of wire welded into bar 8.

A feature of importance is that by loosening the thumb-nut 0n bolt l2,the clamping action 5 of the depending clamp-members H on the ball willbe relieved sufliciently to permit the bottle support and its attachedparts to be entirely removed from the standard, leaving only the post l0and its ball projecting above the bed or crib sheet, clamp-members 6, 8being so arranged that the post I!) may be readily clamped to the edgeof the mattress. Also by arranging the ballclamping device at the outerend of the bar 5, said bar 5 and its bottle-engaging devices may beswung .to a position entirely out of the way. Also by using a flangedbase cup 4 for the bottom of the bottle and a spring clip 2 openingupwardly, the bottle may be readily snapped into and out of place, andwhen in place will be held against dislodgment without the use of ringsor set-screws or other extraneous devices.

A further feature of importance is the particularly constructed clamp atthe bottom of the supporting post [0. It will be observed that thisclamp is formed of a pair of elongated bars 5 and 8, one being arrangedin a fixed position to the post 10 and the other being adjustablymounted on post In and adapted to slide thereon,

so that these clamp bars can embrace a flexible 30 support, such as apillow or mattress to support the nursing bottle in a proper position ina bed or crib without danger of upsetting. These clamp bars, beingelongated, can easily be forced to considerable distance under and overa pillow or mattress and this will furnish a substantial suport.

While the foregoing specification sets forth the invention in specificterms, it is to be understood that numerous changes in the shape, sizeand 40 materials may be resorted to without departing from the spiritand scope of the invention as claimed herein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

A nursing bottle holder comprising a supporting post provided with aball at its upper end and with a laterally extending rigid clamping armat its lower end, a bottle holding cradle consisting of a base bar, arigid cap secured to the top of and extending upright from one end ofsaid bar and designed to receive and serve as a stop for the bottom ofthe bottle, a spring grip 55 at the opposite end of said base bar toreceive the top part of the bottle, the cap serving. to hold the bottlein fixed relation to said grip, a depending clamp secured to the end ofthe base bar directly below the cap and adapted to embrace the ball onthe upper end of the post, means for adjustably securing said clamp tosaid ball to thereby hold the cradle in fixed relation to the post withthe major portion of .thebottle cradle extending laterally from thepost, an adjustable clamping bar mounted on the post and extendingparallel with the rigid clamping arm at the bottom of the post, theadjustable clamping bar and the rigid clamping arm and the base bar ofthe bottle cradle being of substantially the same length and allextending to the same side of the post.

NELLIE .SCROBLE ,VMURPHY.

